Chap. 33, An Expofatiom upon the Book of J.& a, Verf. 32. q.8s. unleffe thou.Ilaewefl me better reafon for it then. hitherto thounap yropen- baft done .7e jail another is foutewayes applyed in Scripture ; dedud defer:, aswas Chewedmore largely at the fecond verfe of the former;.ncrepuandtm.. Chapter. Cot: Firft and chiefly 'cis applyed or attributed to God himfelfe ( Rom., 8. 33. ). It is God that joeftifieth, God puts man into a !late, ofjúfitíacation, he juflifieth hisperfon fo fully, that none` can ( of right) lay any thing to his charge, much leffe condemne him upon any charge layd againfi him. Secondly, Man juflifieth God (Luke 7. 29, 3o.) And all the . people that heard him, andthe Publicans Juftifled god, , being bapti- zed rolth the baptifme ef john. Godhimfelfe who is the Judge of all men, is condemned bymanymen ; and when things are at wort], he alwayes hath Tome to jufiifie him. Man jufiifìeth God whenhe. honoureth God, taking hisparr, and owning both his power and his righteoufneffe inwhatfoever he Both. It isimpof- fible God.lh©uld be unjufl,and God is pleafed to fay, we"jullifie him, when-we maintains his wayes as jufi and righteous. Thirdly , Man juflifieth himfelfe, whenhe is either lifted up . proudly inthe thoughts of what he is or hath done well (Luke 1.8. a a.) or when heupon Good grounds can.maiñtaine that tobe well done which he hath done. . Fourthly, Man juflifieth man, when he either canfents to, or approves of what he hath done or fpoken, whether it b;'good or bad ; he that approves ofa man juf}ifies him, though the man be unjufl. (Troy. a7. Y 5.) Ile that juf ifi-eth the wicket], and he that condemneth theJuft, even they both are an abomination unto the Lord. Let a man be never fo wicked, and doe never fo wickedly, fome through ignoranceof his wickednefle, and others through love to and likingof his wickedneffe, (being fuch themfelves ) will approve of him, and give him their good word. But (as Chrifi teaks, Math, a r 19.) rvi(dome is juflifledofher children; that is, the true lovers and followers ofw ifdome, having a right knowledge and efiimationof her worth, will fiand by her, and fpeakefor her, when flighted by the blind and unknowing world. And as this istrueofdeclarative wifdome,fo efpecially of Chrifi, who is effentiall rvifdóme. His children highly prize and juftifie him while the world condemnsand contemns him. In thisfourth fence Elihuis tobe underfiood here, L defire tojufF fe thee, -,t w is,
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